WCCM Oblate Blog: Reflections from Daily Reading of the Rule of St. Benedict

WCCM Benedictine Oblates are encouraged to read a designated portion of the Rule daily, and to write a brief, personal response. I hope that this blog will support our Oblate community in this practice. Please, keep blog entries brief and in a first-person ("I") voice. Refrain from discussing, offering an opinion, or commenting on other entries. Simply consider how a particular section of the Rule is speaking to you in your present circumstances.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 1-2)

...[E]verything he or she commands or teaches should be like a leaven of the holiness that comes from God infused into the minds of their disciples.

(From para. 2 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

When I have a leadership role to play, do I honor my obligation to be like a "leaven of holiness", allowing the Spirit to expand and enlighten, as it will?

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM
To stay in the mind and "never teach...anything that would deviate from God's instructions" feels like a strait-jacket around my heart. I know that is not what Benedict means when instructing leaders of monasteries because he is very loving in his admonitions. Right now it is saying to me, go to the heart and speak from there- where Truth is grounded in freedom and love.
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